Flight of The Frog

I am creating a stop motion animation short. It is a sci-fi story about a toy frog that was pulled up into a spaceship during an alien abduction. The frog uses ASL to narrate the story and has an electronic interpreter that voices the frog's story. My vision for this film led me to use the media and methods that had been used in early stop motion animations. My goal is to execute the entire film using sculptures of my own design and a camera. This blog is a documentation of the process.

Sunday, May 15, 2011

Sign Language

HAND SHAPES

I was a Sign Language Interpreter for over 10 years and am fluent in American Sign Language. This had a major role in the development of the animation, the frog's character and armature design. The frog's hands are individually sculpted hand shapes that are real symbols used in ASL. They are switched out much like the phonetic mouth shapes are when animating speech. The hands move from one language symbol to another with 2 to 3 transition hand shapes in between to make the movements smooth and readable.

Flight of The Frog

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Sunday, May 15, 2011

Sign Language

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